Housing First: exploring participants’ early support needs

Housing First: exploring participants’ early support needs

BACKGROUND Housing First has become a popular treatment model for homeless adults with mental illness, yet little is known about program participants' early experiences or trajectories. This study used a mixed methods design to examine participant changes in selected domains 6 months after enrollment in a Canadian field trial of Housing First. METHODS The study sample included 301 participant...

Exploring the Housing Needs of Older People in Standard and Sheltered Social Housing

Objective: Our home can have a major impact on our physical and mental health; this is particularly true for older people who may spend more time at home. Older people in social (i.e., public) housing are particularly vulnerable. Housing options for older people in social housing include standard design dwellings or specially designed "sheltered housing." The most suitable housing model should ...

Reduction of Worst Case Housing Needs by Assisted Housing

Housing and health: Housing for people with special needs.

The elderly There is no magical age at which one becomes "old," and any special housing needs are never a consequence of age alone but rather of accompanying financial, mental, or physical disability. The old include some of our poorest, most vulnerable citizens-in 1986 a fifth of single pensioners lived in houses needing more than £1000 worth of urgent repairs to the external fabric.' But ther...

Exploring Metropolitan Housing Price Volatility

This paper uses MSA level data and a panel VAR model to analyze the dynamic determination and impact of the volatility of single-family home value appreciation. We find that the volatility can be magnified by an exogenous increase in the home appreciation rate, responds to changes in the population growth rate, and is serially correlated. Moreover, an exogenous increase in the volatility increa...